Rev. Jonathan Swift
Walter Savage Landor, 1858; Forster, Landor, a Biography (1869) 641.
I am reading once more the work I have read oftener than any other prose work in our language [Swift's Tale of a Tub]. I cannot bring to my recollection the number of copies I have given away, chiefly to young Catholic ladies. I really believe I converted one by it unintentionally. What a writer! not the most imaginative or the most simple, not Bacon or Goldsmith, had the power of saying more forcibly or completely whatever he meant to say!